I cooked! Finally. Pictured is a little late-night grub version. It’s baked spaghetti squash with these delicious little beets on top, and BBQ marinated tofu on the side. I’m gonna talk about the beets. These beets were baked, wrapped in tin foil on a baking dish at 350 degrees until pierceable but not mushy. The…
Tag: gluten-free
Honey Mustard Fried Chicken, Alex’s Brussel Sprouts and Yams
This chicken recipe was inspired by a fried rabbit recipe that I tried once. I love rabbit but I did not like it fried. The batter was super though and I decided that it would be good for chicken. I use this delicious sharp honey mustard called Honeycup that comes in an octagon shaped jar….
apple-BUTTER-nut Squash soup
Chris and I just got back from visiting his parents in Tennessee. The Greens hike and bike and are fastidiously careful about how they eat. They eat not much meat, no real butter, no whole eggs, and only skimmed milk products. It seems to be working out for them because they are fit, healthy, beautiful…
Groundnut and Greens Palaver with Black-Eyes
It’s the first day of autumn here on the west coast, and it’s raining, it’s cold, and I’m sick & busy. I froze some of this soup last spring during a more leisurely spell, and ingesting it is improving the quality of my life manifold. This stew is hot, rich, spicy, and packed with everything…
Charmed Late-Summer Vegetables
This dish came out of a culinary experiment on an overcast day. It uses the ingredients that I had on hand from my garden, or out of the back of my fridge. Some of the charm came from discovering these small, almost translucent pale yellow tomatoes in my garden that I had never noticed before….
The many virtues of home-made chicken stock
This is the beginning of chicken stock making season for me. In truth, it is more satisfying to make chicken stock when the weather gets a bit colder, but I am underemployed in the early fall and too busy to make chicken stock in the winter when I need it for soups and holiday dishes….
Spicy Chickpea Pancakes (with green salad)
I eat this a lot. Really. When I am working, it is a rare week that I don’t eat this at least once. It is very easy, cheap, healthful and delicious. The recipe for Chick-Pea Crepes with Ginger and Hot Chilies is from Classic Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Julie Sahni. My friend Gayathri was impressed…
Blackberry, Lemon, Ginger Tea Cake (gluten free)
Last Christmas, my mother and I made an apple cinnamon cake recipe from the Baby Cakes cookbook. That’s a really outstanding source of recipes for wheat and dairy free baking, for those of you who need that kind of thing. I cannot eat gluten, which is a particularly annoying for someone who likes to bake…
Spicy Broiled Shrimp (my dad’s favourite)
When I was in high-school my mother worked at Walden Books. She would buy me books from the sale table with her discount. She was very attuned to my interests so she brought home big coffee table art books and cook books. One of these was a giant British volume on Asian cookery. I was…
Fancy Salad for a Rugged Situation (Greens with Roasted Figs, Asparagus, Mint and Manchego)
Last week I was building puppets outside in Fort Worth Texas in over 100 degree weather. We do a big food shop at the beginning of the project to stretch our per diem and allow for eating mexican food and margaritas at Benito’s once the show is up and running. We are not as frugal…
